Laureate Academy: last distance offered & admissions history

In 2026-27, the last place at Laureate Academy went to an applicant living 20.77 miles from the school. The council's figures don't show whether anyone was refused that year, so it may not have been a cut-off. We hold 3 years of published distances for this school.

We do not compare these years: we do not hold the criterion the last place went under for every one of them, or it differs between them, so the distances may not be like for like.

Laureate Academy by the numbers

In 2026-27, Laureate Academy received 218 applications for 210 places — around 1.0 per place. 37 named it as a first preference, or about 0.2 first choices per place.

Year 7 entry

Year	Last distance offered	Places	Applications	1st preferences
2027-28	—	210	—	—
2026-27	20.77 mi	210	218	37
2025-26	5.26 mi	210	217	58
2024-25	8.03 mi	158 offered	267	64
2023-24	In Priority Area, Not Ne…	160 offered	253	73
2022-23	In Priority Area, Not Ne…	139 offered	265	54
2021-22	Last place: “Outside Priority Area, Distance”	191 offered	303	66
2020-21	Last place: “Outside Priority Area, Distance”	152 offered	296	71
2019-20	—	208 offered	319	66
2018-19	—	168 offered	367	97
2017-18	—	113 offered	379	79
2016-17	—	146 offered	438	118
2015-16	—	130 offered	454	105
2014-15	—	146 offered	466	116

The places offered, applications and first preferences for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) are DfE's figures for its predecessor, The Cavendish School, before it converted.

2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 (Year 7) were the admissions rounds of its predecessor, The Cavendish School (URN 117528): every figure for those years is that school's.

How to read this: the last distance offered is an outcome of each admission round — how far from the school the final offer reached after places were allocated under the published criteria. It is not a catchment boundary and it moves every year with sibling numbers, birth-year cohort size and application patterns.

Figures come from the local authority's published allocation data. Some councils publish the National Offer Day figure, which can understate the final September position after waiting-list movement — always confirm with the admissions authority before relying on a single year.

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